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    European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 28, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 us. News the stars and stripes monday january 28,1991l.a. Deputy chief named to head Dallas police Dallas apr a los Angeles Deputy police chief who Lea Security efforts during the 1984 olympics has been picked to Lead the Dallas a Force. A / a he is replacing chief Mack vines who was fired for allegedly lying about a police shooting. William Rathburn was selected from More than 100 candidates for the Job after vines was dismissed in september. /. Rathburn 49, has won Community Praise As commander of los Angeles Southern Bureau where from March 1988 until this month he led 1,200 officers patrolling predominantly Black and hispanic neighbourhoods. A finalist for the Job in 1988 when vines was hired Rathburn said his work in los Angeles prepared him for the task of rebuilding Community Trust and officer morale in the 3,000-member Dallas police department. He will assume the $95,000 Post March 4.woman Heads Acle new York up a the american civil liberties Union on saturday elected a new York Law school professor As the organizations first woman president in its 71-year history. Nadine Strossen 40, who teaches constitutional Law was chosen by the Public interest Law organizations 83-Membcr National Board to replace new York University Law school professor Norman Dorsyn said Acle spokesman Phil  move South Rye Brook . A Bye Bye Beetle Arrivederci Dick. The museum of cartoon Art is heading South. The Board of directors approved the move to Boca Raton fla., in a 16-2 mail in vote a Beetle Bailey cartoonist Mort Walker said Friday. The museum housed in historic Ward Castle since it was founded in 1979, features original cartoons by artists such As a Dick Tracy creator Chester Gould and a Prince valiant originator Hal Foster. Museum directors have been looking for bigger quarters for the past two years and found what they wanted when Boca Raton officials gave them a $1 million piece of land. They plan to build a 30,000-Square-foot museum featuring 12 display galleries and rooms for targe screen exhibitions. The old museum had 5,000 Square feet. It attracted about 50,000 visitors each  sentence upheld Trenton . A a businessman whose conviction for hiring someone to kill his wife was chronicled in a Best Selling Book became the first person to have his death sentence upheld since new Jersey reinstated capital punishment in 1982. A. A Quot the new Jersey supreme court which reversed 27 previous death sentences ruled that Roberto Marshall 50, should die by lethal injection for hiring three Louisiana men to murder his wife Maria in 1984. The Marshall Case was the subject of a Blind Faith a a 1989 Best Selling Book by Joseph Meginniss and and Abc ministries in february 1990/. A a a a v a Black Bishop ordained Pasadena Calif. Apr the episcopal Church ordained its first Black Bishop in the Western United states in an elaborate ceremony on saturday. I he Rev. Chester Lovicie Talton 49, was ordained Suffragan Bishop of the diocese of los Angeles in a ceremony at Lake Avenue congregational Church the diocese is the fourth largest in the nation and encompasses parts of six Southern California counties. Talton who replaced the Rev. Oliver b. Carverjr said he believed his experience a including time As pastor of a Church in new Yorkus Harlem a would be an asset in his new Job. A i come out of a Community that understands something about oppression and being left out and on the margins in a very firsthand Way a he said. A i see that As More of an Opportunity to  in 16 Atlanta not a three men who Federal investigators said were trying to Start a White supremacist group have been indicted on charges that they stole weapons and explosives from the military and transported and stockpiled More than 90 pounds of explosives. A a ���.�. A the 16-count Federal indictment was returned in Jacksonville fla., but it. Involved activities from Tennessee to Florida. A. A the defendants arc two Florida men and a member of the army Green berets who had been stationed at fort Campbell by. Federal investigators would not give details about the organization the men were trying to Start but officials of klan watch a not for profit group that monitors sex trend is groups identified it As knights of the new order a this group was More of a Neo nazi organization based on the materials and literature they were assent bling a said . Roy a investigator with klan watch which distributes its periodic reports to Law enforce mint agencies and which is part of the Southern poverty Law Center in Montgomery Ala. A it was real militaristic and it was soliciting members from among Active military and former military  Roy said it was not uncommon for such groups to Hoard Large caches of weapons and explosives since a they believe that there is going to be a race War,�?�4 bodies found in restaurant Irving Texas apr the slayings of four people in a fast food restaurant were discovered saturday after police found a take out bag stuffed with Cash during a routine traffic Stop. Two teen agers one of them an employee of the Taco Bell restaurant in this Dallas suburb were in custody and charges against them were pending police  the motive was robbery a said police capt. . Mall the victims three of them restaurant employees were found shot to death in a walk in Freezer Hall said. Police stopped a car for investigation of Drunken driving around 5 . And found an unspecified amount of Money inside a Taco Bell bag. The suspects age 19 and 17, were arrested after a search of several Tico Bell restaurants turned up the bodies. The dead employees Vivere identified As Theresa Fraga 16, of Irving her Cousin Frank Fraga 23, of Dallas and Taco Bell manager Michael a Phelan 28, of fort Worth. The name of the fourth victim an acquaintance of one of the workers was t immediately disclosed. Hall said that several Irving officers had eaten at the restaurant at about 1 45 . And talked to the employ. Yes. He Wasny to sure when the restaurant dosed. This group was real militaristic and it was soliciting members from among Active military and former military  �?. Rykia Swatch investigator named in the indictment were John Tubbs 26, and Stephen Fussell 26, both of Jacksonville and sgt Michael Tubbs 31, who had been stationed at fort Campbell before being de Loyed to the persian Gulf ast fall. John Tubbs and Michael Tubbs Are Brothers. A Robert w. Genzman the . Attorney for the Middle District of Florida who obtained the indict a ment said Fussell was cooperating with prosecutors and has been released on bail. A sgt Tubbs who was returned to the United states from the Gulf in november after he became a suspect in the investigation was being held without bail As was his brother. A /�/�?�.�, / in searches of the Homes of the Tubbes and others suspected in the conspiracy investigators found White supremacist literature a Handwritten charter stating the purpose of the new group plastic explosives blasting Caps machine guns silencers an anti personnel mine and grenades. A / a. A \ a a. Investigators said tracing by the army suggested that much of the weaponry had been stolen from military bases. The indictment charged that sgt. Tubbs and another Man obtained two m-16 machine guns in the 1987 armed robbery of two soldiers at fort Bragg . Hear testimony Joe and Joyce Cruzan whose Battle to remove their daughter s life sustaining feeding tube became the focus of National Date listen to testimony before a Missouri legislative committee considering right to die legislation in Jefferson city.1 Chicago apr City police May have engaged in the systematic torture of suspects from 1972 to 1984, an amnesty International report says. The report stems from a convicted murderers allegations he was beaten burned shocked electrically and threatened with death in 1982, the human rights group said Friday. Police spokeswoman Tina Vicini said the department was familiar with allegations of torture in the Case of convicted murderer Andrew Wilson but  comment on the report. A report on the allegations was issued at amnesty International world Headquarters in London in december. The group was to release the report monday. Judy Hatcher of amnesty International a Chicago office said the group does no to discuss allegations of human rights violations in the country where they originate except in capital punishment cases. A the task Force to confront police violence a Chicago group investigating brutality claims said it had obtained a copy of amnesty International a report on the Chicago police department and also would release it in Chicago on monday. The report centers on allegations Wilson made in a 1989 civil lawsuit. A Wilson now 38, and his brother Jackie were charged with the shooting deaths of Chicago police officers William Fahey and Richard of Brien. Jackie Wilson also was convicted of murder and is in prison. Andrew Wilson a conviction and death sentence were overturned in 1987 by the Illinois supreme court which ordered a retrial saying his confession May have resulted from police coercion. In a 1989 retrial Wilson was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. Prosecutors weren to allowed to use the confession As evidence. He later said officers beat and kicked him nearly suffocated him with a plastic bag shocked him with several electrical devices burned him on a Radiator and placed a gun in his Mouth and pulled the trigger  
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